Alia attempts to exploit this atmosphere of civil unrest by ordering her mother's assassination. His words provoke contempt among the masses. Jessica fears her grandchildren will suffer the same fate if left to Alia's care.Meanwhile, a mysterious preacher blows into Arrakeen from the desert, proclaiming that the blessings of Muad'dib have been corrupted. Irrevocably strained relations between mother and daughter are further worsened when Jessica realizes what is happening to Alia: Abomination, defined by the Bene Gesserit as complete possession of a pre-born by an ancestral spirit. On planet Selusa Secundus, Princess Wensicia devises a plan to assassinate the royal Leto's investiture approaches, Lady Jessica returns to Arrakis from the Atreides home world, Caladan. Old enemies of the Atreides see their rule as vulnerable. Haunted by visions of a far off place, Leto slowly sees that he is destined to play a role far greater than increasingly erratic behavior and the resulting civil unrest on Arrakis is the talk of the empire. As she slips further into a possessed state, her only comfort comes from her husband, a clone of the trusted Atreides warrior, Duncan Idaho.Paul's twin children, Leto and Ghanima, are also "pre-born." They are now 'of age' and Leto will soon take over the throne. However, the spice awakens memories and personalities within, including that of the evil Baron Harkonnen, her maternal grandfather, who vies for control of her mind.
In an attempt to see the future, she begins taking large quantities of spice. Alia awoke to consciousness while still in the womb and suffers the curse of all of those who are "pre-born" the memories of her ancestors float within her, waiting to be awakened. After his beloved concubine Chani dies giving birth to twin heirs, Leto II and Ghanima, Paul wanders off into the desert, perhaps never to be seen Paul's absence, his sister, Alia, rules as Regent in the name of the children. He has visions of a son who will return peace to the universe by guiding man down the "Golden Path." During a failed assassination attempt on his life, Paul is blinded. Outside, a cunning alliance of former enemies, including Princess Wensicia of the deposed House Corrino, the Bene Gesserit sisterhood and the Spacing Guild conspire against him in the hopes of regaining realizes the only way to rid the Empire of its corruption is for Maud'dib the god to cease to exist. As ruler, he longs to enact change, but he must contend with his own deification, as well as the threats to his rule both internal and the Priests, the bureaucrats and the fanatics of his theocracy will do anything to protect their own power and privilege. Paul recognizes that the revolution he inspired has become perverted, brutal and totalitarian. Since his ascension to the throne, his fervent followers have fought a brutal jihad in his name that has spanned the known universe.
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